Mike Huckabee pardoned or commuted the sentences of 669 convicted crimianls. 11 of those were convicted MURDERERS. It is his overall record that is concerning. It not only the DuMond case.

He defends his record by saying he is a Christian and believes in REDEMPTION.

WELL, I"M ALSO A CHRISTIAN AND I BELIEVE IN JUSTICE.

Thanks ABC, for RUINING THE MOVIE FOR ME. You should please put "warning: spoilers" so you don't do the same for other people.

This is the most ridiculous story I have ever heard. I saw the movie and i did not come away with the feeling that law enforcement involved with the acutally case were corrupt in any grandious way. It's fictional, and know how much is fact and how much is added to enhance the movie is imposssible to tell and who cares. I went to see Denzel and support what I felt would be another one of his outstanding performances.

i think this movie is goging to be a really good one and i like thibgs that have to do with this kind of stuff.

It's A MOVIE For crying out loud!! People are so ridiculous!!..and you know what truth is this is the real world and there are curropt police officers out there! and there are faithfull and awesome cops! Reality is it was a movie and Hollywood is Hollywood they will make the movie interesting like they do best! LET IT BE IT'S A MOVIE!! GOSH!!

Steve's comment reminds of when I saw JFK. I was lining up to see the film when the people in the theater exited in front of me. Some idiot blurts out that JFK gets killed in the film. Ruined the whole experience for me! C'mon Steve, unless you haven't read the news all year, well we all know how the film ends.

Thanks for the story ABC News.

I was surprised by the closing notes in "American Gangster." It made me think the NYPD drug unit was almost totally corrupt.

Just goes to show that Hollywood will say anything to make increase their revenue.

I hope there is a retraction.

With respect to Steve's comment, I saw the movie and while I recognize it is a fictional account based on actual events, I have never seen that type of movie extend the "fiction" to the closing credits. I bet if you asked most individuals who viewed the credits and haven't read recent articles, they would tell you they too believed the closing credits. It also disturbs me that attending this movie puts money in Frank Lucas' pockets. I would have never attended had I known that. The Son of Sam laws don't apply in this instance.

I think the Gangster thing is just the latest thing that Hollywood is making money off of. Their is nothing American about lawlessness. The DEA need not worry about what Hollywood puts in a movie. Nothing could be more fake than Hollywood!

"LET IT BE IT'S A MOVIE!!"

Exactly. The closing credits are a little like the closing credits of "Dragnet" on TV, where the bad guy is (usually) said to have been sentenced to prison.

If the baddie were, instead, found innocent, and those credits claimed otherwise AND ALSO NAMED the actual person(s) (instead of the "names have been changed" caveat), then those credits would be false and actionable. That's the case here.

Among the credits for writers, director, actors, cameramen, gaffers and best boy is a statement about real people with real lives, and that statement is false. It should be removed and an apologia placed in its place.

Then the movie can go back to being "just a movie."

Ed

I saw the movie and did indeed come away with the idea that the NYC DEA was terribly corrupt. I think that a retraction is in order - from both Bill O'Reilly and Universal Studios.

When somebody is so sensitive about stuff like this, they reek of guilt.

Every generation of our life..... and you seen it in a movie, be it before or afterwards. I think the DEA is just a little "edgy for whatever reason"

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. One only has to look at Bush and Cheney to understand this. Corruption always has to be "outed". The code of silence among the police is a way to cover up corruption and puts honest cops at risk.

I too saw the movie, and also a special on Frank Lucas which aired on either the History Channel or BET (I can't remember). I find it very difficult to believe that there wasn't any corruption on behalf of any type of law enforcement agency during the time that Frank Lucas ran the streets. I think we all have to use a little common sense and be realistic and understand that we probably never will get the TRUE story of what happened back then and who was involved and to what extent. It's silly to think that there wasn't any corruption - corruption in law enforcement is present even today.

you have all missed the point, if indeed it is true that the convictions of 3/4 of the New York DEA never occured then the statement made in the closing credits is just a flat out lie and should be retracted. why not write in the credits, "Lucas' case helped uncover corruptness within the NY DEA." to make up a flat out lie that impunes the reputation of many upstanding NY DEA agents by lumping them all in with the corrupt agents is wrong.

While I personally haven't seen the movie yet, if such a claim was made at the end of the movie, and there is no evidence to back it up, then it should be removed. Simple as that.

Do you blame them. They're the cops who were not on the take - hence, they're broke!

Thought there are some DEA agents that are bad apples, I think that 75% is an  unfair estimate. I was born in Harlem and it is "mean streets"...If Lucas got squeezed by some of the agents..good... he deserved to get every evil that they could throw at him...New York is not the place to do a survey on corruption... New York is like no other city in the world and besides "Fight fire with fire baby"!!!!!!!!

"honest, decent, courageous" does not apply to ANY employee of any branch of any government anywhere in the world.